Dresden
Dresden is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201273 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1989
- 1,137people given the name
The story in the numbers
954 boys have been named Dresden in the United States since 1989, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 73 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 54%.
Dresden is used for both sexes: 16% of its bearers are girls (183), most of them born around 2017.
By decade
In 2012, its biggest year
Dresden was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2012 were Jacob, Mason, Ethan, Noah and William. See all of 2012.
Names that rose and fell with Dresden
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maksimpeak 2011
- Jarielpeak 2009
- Kymanipeak 2012
- Braylinpeak 2011
- Draydenpeak 2012
- Landynpeak 2012
- Kaedynpeak 2009
- Caidynpeak 2011
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.